Imagine the scenario. My friend and I are playing a game of chess near a highway. Initially, I notice the sound of the highway. While I'm playing chess, however, I do not notice it. After the game my ...

The concepts of robustness and canalization are fashionable today in the biology literature. However, I am not sure of their definitions and I am not sure either that all authors actually use the same ...

In an effort to select for the most suitable plants to possibly colonise desert and stop its expansion,
what would be the xerophyte plants that grow the faster and expand on surface, while using the ...

if willing to recolonize earth desert , let's say sahara or any dehydrated and sterile land, without intensive human intervention, what would be the first plants / algae / fungi /bacteria to grow ?
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In most biomes on earth, and certainly in the most densely-populated, the best camouflage color or pattern for an animal would be a variant of green, so as to blend in with the leaves and grasses of ...

It seems like being nearsighted for much of your life due to elongated eyes would make it easier in general to focus on near objects rather than far since the lens would not have to change much. Since ...

According to Charles Darwin, as the surrounding environment changes, so changes the anatomy or morphology of a specific organism.
But nowadays, humans have become very advanced in the technology and ...

So I have been trying to find an answer to this question in the literature but to no avail. I am looking at the Tero and other articles on the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. I understand the models ...

I have palpated many hard organs during my work and studies.
I have seen many young and old people who have hard organs, like very hard shoulder - very common.
I have interviewed some of them, some ...

It is often said "You don't need to outrun the cheetah, just the other gazelles", thus emphasizing that greater part of the adaptation pressure comes from competing with other individuals of the same ...

I have heard of 'extremophiles', lifeforms that naturally thrive in all sorts of extreme environments.
Is there any evidence to suggest that lifeforms are adapting to the extreme environments (such ...

I have collected some data to compare the biodiversity of a field in which the plagioclimax is maintained by machine mowing with a field in which the plagioclimax is maintained by sheep grazing.
What ...

I am somewhat new to evolutionary biology, having studied it on my free time as a computer science student. There is one particular thing that has always bothered me for which I have not seen a good ...

Have there been any studies done on the animal use of their bodies to signal, communicate or express their emotions, particularly to members of other species (ex: humans)?
I've been observing a very ...